---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to law enforcement participation in a federal immigration program and relative to cooperation with federal immigration authorities."
description: "relative to law enforcement participation in a federal immigration program and relative to cooperation with federal immigration authorities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 62"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 62 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill M. Gannon"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/142d50b5-4d1f-46d2-bc42-4861a379ecd5"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=1016&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "d9f5be427ea9560b4998c8aa50ff9ba8153af497dbe1eee89d136b6ec8e239a9"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nh"]
---

# New Hampshire SB 62 (2025) — relative to law enforcement participation in a federal immigration program and relative to cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment #2025-2322e** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-2322e&txtFormat=amend)

## Votes

- Concur — **15–8** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Floor Amendment — **202–160** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Floor Amendment — **161–199** (fail) · lower
- Ought to Pass — **15–8** (pass) · upper
- OTPA — **200–162** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bill M. Gannon — primary (person)
- Aboul B Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Howard Pearl — cosponsor (person)
- JD Bernardy — cosponsor (person)
- Keith R. Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth L Weyler — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin A. Avard — cosponsor (person)
- Lilli M Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Birdsell — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon M. Carson — cosponsor (person)
- Tim McGough — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy Lang — cosponsor (person)
- Victoria Sullivan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-14** Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 3 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16** Hearing: 01/23/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:15 pm; SC 7
- **2025-01-28** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 01/30/2025, Vote 3-2; SC 7A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-30** Ought to Pass: RC 15Y-8N, MA; OT3rdg; 01/30/2025; SJ 4 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety HJ 11 P. 110 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Public Hearing: 04/09/2025 11:30 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-04-14** Executive Session: 04/23/2025 11:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-04-14** ==CANCELLED== Executive Session: 04/25/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-04-30** Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass 04/23/2025 (Vote 9-7; RC) HC 23 P. 11 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-30** Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- **2025-05-08** FLAM # 2025-1941h (Rep. Scherr): AF RC 161-199 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 15
- **2025-05-08** FLAM # 2025-1957h(NT) (Rep. Sweeney): AA RC 202-160 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 18
- **2025-05-08** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-1957h: MA RC 200-162 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 21 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-08** Reconsider OTPA (Rep. Sweeney): MF VV 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 23
- **2025-05-15** Sen. Gannon Moved to Concur with the House Amendment, RC 15Y-8N, MA; 05/15/2025; SJ 13
- **2025-05-21** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2025-2322e: AA VV (in recess of) 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 62
- **2025-05-21** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2025-2322e Adopted, VV, (In recess of 05/15/2025); SJ 14 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-21** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/15/2025); SJ 14 `enrolled`
- **2025-05-21** Enrolled (in recess of) 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 62
- **2025-05-22** Signed by the Governor on 05/22/2025; Chapter 0039; Effective 01/01/2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/142d50b5-4d1f-46d2-bc42-4861a379ecd5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).